1964-2002

Librarians for Fairness

A librarians' association that advocates for academic balance in our libraries

Librarians for Fairness is an organization dedicated to bringing information about Israel to libraries around the world and to promoting democratic values. We work to ensure that Israel is represented fairly in libraries through books, periodicals, audiovisuals, and online resources.

Book Discussion Kit

Now featuring a current affairs bestseller—

The Case for Democracy: The Power to Overcome Tyranny & Terror

If you would like to catalog and add The Case for Democracy to your library’s
collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping
information, and phone. Please accept this book as a DONATION as long as
our supply lasts.

Show a Film on the Middle East

Now offering Israel 4 Kids CD

American Children can now take a virtual tour of Israel with Srulik,
a popular sandal-footed Israeli cartoon character. This fun and interactive
tour will make Israel come alive as students
experience the story of Israel that rarely gets told. Children and educators
alike can learn about Israel’s cool Internet technologies (i.e. AOL
instant messaging), watermelon picking robots,
live-saving cancer drugs, and other joint U.S.-Israeli projects and become
better informed about Israel’s unique history, national languages,
climate, food, branches of government, and currency.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel 4 Kids to your library’s collection,
please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information,
and phone. Please accept the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

Israel in the World

This colorful volume takes an in-depth look at a remarkable achievement: how one small and very young
country has successfully become one of the world's technological leaders.

From agriculture to medicine, Israel stands right at the forefront of technological
development. Learn about the country's many achievements and breakthoughs,
and how it's poised to remain on the industrial cutting edge in the
foreseeable future. The countless accomplishments outlined here would
be dazzling, even if they hadn't emerged from a nation that didn't
even exist 60 years ago: Israel created the ICQ chat facility that
is now used
by hundreds of millions
of internet surfers each day; the technology that allows you to leave
voicemail messages on a mobile phone; the medical diagnostic equipment
(including magnetic resonance imaging) found in most hospitals; and
the surveillance equipment that
alerts security officials to suspicious activities at airports. Find
out about the people who made such progress possible; the educational
system
that allowed these citizens, many of them recent immigrants, to reach
their full potential; and how
Israel uses its knowledge for the well-being of the world.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel in the World to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept
the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

High school matriculation exams serve to reinforce “hateful content” taught in Palestinian schools, underscoring “the need for an urgent and determined intervention in the Palestinian curriculum,” a Jerusalem-based watchdog has warned.

In a report released this month, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) found that six of the 26 tawjihi exams for 2019, which are taken by twelfth-grade Palestinian students and are necessary for enrollment in Palestinian and some Arab universities, included “problematic material” that reflects themes taught in Palestinian Authority textbooks and on official preparatory websites.

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IMPACT-se pointed to multiple tawjihi questions that conveyed concerning messages, such as a query on the geography exam that asked students what countries share the Jordan River basin... Read the full story...

New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute has denied a pro-Israel student’s request to host a Zionist speaker in response to an event it hosted last month with anti-Israel Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat, according to emails obtained by JNS.

Citing NYU’s policy regarding speakers, which includes “the free exchange of ideas and open inquiry are the bedrock principles at NYU,” Ben Newhouse, a junior, emailed on Oct... Read the full story...

A ‘Free Palestine’ sign on display with the University of Minnesota’s gopher mascot. Photo: Students for Justice in Palestine via Facebook.

Hundreds of members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) converged on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities this past weekend for the anti-Israel organization’s ninth annual national conference, an event a campus Jewish leader called “disturbing.”

Under the banner of “Beyond Struggle: From Roots to Branches Towards Liberation,” the three-day gathering began with a celebration of the host SJP chapter’s success in passing a pro-BDS measure last year.

As the student arm of the boycott movement targeting Israel, which a recent report on antisemitism noted is a main driver of Jew-hatred on campus, SJP is looking to mainstream its advocacy, aided by the emergence of new public figures like Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota... Read the full story...

Hamas Accidentally Brings Daniel’s Prophecy to Life with Fire Book in River
by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

On Saturday, hikers near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel discovered a book floating in a river with an explosive device embedded inside. The deadly trap was apparently floated over the border on balloons from Gaza, intended to harm hapless Israelis.

“We are urging the public to be aware of any suspicious object,” the police said in a statement... Read the full story...

The silent bystanders in the war against the Jews
Fearfulness, cowardice, avoidance of feared punishment—or silent approval—is precisely how Hitler triumphed.
by Prof. Phyllis Chesler

The writer is a Ginsburg-Ingerman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, received the 2013 National Jewish Book Award,.authored 18 books, including Women and Madness and The New Anti-Semitism, and 4 studies about honor killing, Her latest books are An American Bride in Kabul, A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killing and A Politically Incorrect Feminist.

This piece is dedicated to Renia Spiegel, the so-called Polish “Anne Frank” who kept a diary in Premyslani where my maternal ancestors once lived.

Visibly Jewish civilians are being beaten on the streets in Europe and in North America... Read the full story...

We will be continuing as an organization, at least for the forseeable future, with several members taking on different tasks. Hopefully, we will have a new volunteer-administrator in the near future. You will always still ber able to order free pro-Israel materials for your libraries by emailing:
shipping@standwithus.com